today also include sanctions against against other countries such as north korea for example russia or south sudan alexander what impact could these sanctions have . i mean one could argue that they are rather symbolic sanctions for individuals one anted to be but of course some experts say this is just a starting point and those sanctions could be wretched up very quickly to people who are close to china's communist party's leadership and we also have to say that they are in the evidence that the european union is sort of toughening stance on china that was in the past seen as the trade partner and now it's being described as a systematic arrival and those sanctions are coming only months after the e.u. and china agreed on the come for hansen and that's meant agreement that however still needs to be ratified in the european parliament so there is

a lot of stake for china here as well our brussels bureau chief alexander from naaman with the very latest there are many breaking story thank you alexandra. well as tensions ratchet up between the e.u. and china canada is accusing beijing of a hostage diplomacy at the start of another trial of a canadian citizen accused of espionage former diplomat michael cole for it was arrested in 2018 formally charged with spying last year a case against another canadian national facing the same charges opened last week that canadian diplomats have been refused access to the process proceedings ottawa maintains in both cases are retaliation for its arrest of a senior executive from the telecom giant hallway. moving on to our other top story now europe's biggest economy is poised to further tighten its lockdown restrictions german chancellor angela merkel is meeting with regional leaders later to discuss the path forward that is amid growing evidence in germany that

a 3rd wave of the coronavirus is beginning the country has registered almost 8000 daily new cases now in the fall a steep rise in cases was brought under control by a 2nd lockdown but since some restrictions were eased at the start of march as you can see here there's been a new spike scientists fear cases could jump to a new high well the exponential rise in cases comes amid growing protests against current restrictions thousands of people rallied in germany and elsewhere in europe over the weekend police say some 20000 people demonstrated in the german city of casal making it one of the largest rallies of its kind so far in germany this year scuffles broke out between some of the protesters and police was ordered to using batons pepper spray and water cannon to disperse the crowds police tweeted that there had been quote repeated attacks by protesters against emergency service workers. let's bring in our political correspondent thomas sparrow for the latest

on this story hi thomas good to see you as we said there on the one hand we have these protests against coronavirus measures on the other hand you have these infection numbers that are rising and of the chancellor and state leaders will be meeting what measures are they going to discuss. and these 2 pictures to me give you an idea of just how difficult the dial is now for german authorities who on the one hand have to balance start coronavirus fatigue and on the other hand they have to see the reality on the ground with those rising infections with more and more hotspots here in the country and this is actually something that's changing the way that they had actually planned because german leaders had met a few weeks ago to actually plan the way forward the reopening of germany a cautious reopening but an opening nevertheless and what we're seeing now with these growing infections is that they will probably have to pull the handbrake as they themselves discuss because now this 7 day rate in other words a number of new infections per 100000 inhabitants in 7 days has gone beyond the one

hand 100 threshold that actually means that they have to start pulling the brake they have to go back to some of those restrictions that were previously in place and this is obviously something to me that is affecting germans as a whole it's also affecting those for example who have businesses and news actually visited one business in particular that's actually very concerned about the current situation in germany. for the longer this homemade chocolate cherry cake is a favorite with customers at the moment they can only serve it to go. but that doesn't cover her costs at all by now she's accumulated a debt of around 35000 euros. if germany were to tighten restrictions again she'd be forced to close. up about a loss of. 10 top festus that. lockdown is actually put in place then i would definitely have to shut down for good. because i'm taking out 2 loans which

i'll have to pay back. i just wouldn't know how to go on. many businesses in germany fear for their existence some have already given up meanwhile cases in the country are increasing rapidly just weeks after restrictions were eased and schools and some shops reopened. more people are on the move exposing themselves to the risk of infection. researchers more and germany's vaccination rollout has not progressed enough to counteract this. often gets heated it doesn't get into time even if we've already vaccinated many of the elderly there's still a large proportion of vulnerable people who have not been given the job in fits into it's one we still haven't vaccinated enough and that's why the number of patients in intensive care units will rise again. many people in germany are torn at the prospect of tighter restrictions. or guys that i'm not thrilled to because

it's been going on for a year now and at some point you're really done with it all allan dorris evil i'd rather be open and just live it's boring it's good to feel that there are many covert cases now and we have to be careful. because if we keep everything open then infection numbers will go up and that's a problem. but if we close everything that means many businesses will go bust. thank you. can still hopes to avoid bankruptcy she still wants to sell her homemade cakes for many years to come. so thomas you know we heard that the vaccine we're all out has been very slow a lot of people are frustrated about that is there any sign that that situation is starting to improve. there is certainly a degree of frustration in fact a majority of germans if you look at a recent poll say that the vaccination rollout has gone either badly or very badly

it has to do with speed overseas germans want this to happen faster but it also has to do with the bureaucracy for example with a lot of red tape and that's the reason why german leaders actually make nost week to try and improve germany's a vaccination rollout make sure that more people get that vaccine as quickly as possible one element that german officials are actually using to try on the 100 and speed up the process on the other hand to make it a little bit more flexible is by including g.p.s. and family doctors in the whole process that's something that is due to start in april and although people expect this to change rapidly i would say that those who really expect that they're going to be a little bit disappointed because this is obviously a slow process that affects many in germany but officials are aware that it's a big problem on one that they're trying to deal with as quickly as possible our political correspondent thomas reporting there thank you very much. now the

u.s. city of miami in florida has imposed a nighttime curfew after crowds of party goers ignored social distancing roles restrictions are likely to remain in place until after easter the city is one of america's tourist hot spots. thousands of people flock to miami for spring break a v.m. this march they are the target of an emergency concert. huge crowds have brought chaos and disorder in parts of the city including south beach and miami beach. people like you know i don't know i don't know if anybody learned from last year's experience we did in the sense that we know younger people are going to not wear masks i'm hoping they did but i think a lot of younger people are feeling like they want to get out and go crazy and we're trying to let them know don't do that don't come here to do that. because he

from 18 the evening and till 6 in the morning aims to put a stop to the hot partying the scene restaurants trashed and ugly street fighting. visitors have mixed feelings on the side and down. cut those doing a they be what is out here joint to be head you know it's a good job but they want to shut it down to 8 o'clock he will go somewhere else and take the money somewhere else so it is what it is what people live i think it is a good idea even though it's fine i hear like we want to be out here not fun i think it's a good idea hurt everyone should be like you know i get in there all my life he's yeah i mean you kind of sucks but at same time there's been so much fun out here and you know like ok got the warm weather here at the beach there's nice to the tourism is florida's highest earning game destry lost his spring break because one

of the firm. major council to use of the pandemic and beaches were closed as america went into knock down a your own even stricter measures are in place true mind references that the pandemic is far from over. let's take a look at some other developments in the pandemic support for astra zeneca coronavirus vaccine has plunged in europe a new poll shows most people in germany france spain and italy think the drug is unsafe india has seen its biggest surge in cases in 4 months the government is warning that a huge hindu festival taking place on the river ganges could be a super spreader event and japan has ended a state of emergency that was in force in the tokyo region vaccine rollout has been slow and infections are still rising. and let's get a run up now of some other headlines there have been violent clashes in the british

city of bristol at a rally against a proposed policing bill at least 20 officers were injured the bill would give police sweeping new powers to clamp down on public protests. a group of a ton kong pro-democracy activists released from jail in china have been detained on their return home they were arrested at sea last year on charges of illegal border crossing it's believed they were trying to flee to taiwan to escape prosecution for their involvement in anti-government protests in hong kong. a member of parliament from uncle michael c.d.u. party has died after collapsing on a flight back to germany from cuba challenge plans was 53 the cause of death is unclear the tabloid billed as reporting that she was not travelling on business strands had recently been caught up in a lobbying scandal involving azerbaijan. and scientists say a volcanic eruption in iceland could go on for several weeks hundreds of sightseers have flocked to volcanoes south of the capital reykjavik tens of thousands of small tremors rocked the area for several weeks before the volcano began erupting.

australia set to evacuate thousands more people from sydney's suburbs as a reason grapples with its worst flooding in decades have the rains have swelled rivers across new south wales state causing widespread damage emergency services fear that more than 50000 people could be displaced as for castro more rain is on the way. a desperate attempt to save a stranded ha'p'orth. to renshaw rain and flash floods in a strange state of new south wales have cut onus off from that the most for many creatures help has come too late. at least 18000 people have been evacuated from their homes as rivers and dams overflow. some of trying to shore up their houses as best they can ahead of the looming waters. others have already seen their homes ravaged by the

flooding. always rethink and. tappets everything's. gone. but. you've got to be thankful for this moment. but residents have been warned that the worst may still be to come and told to brace for a difficult week ahead. astronomy. is being tested once again in. the east coast of australia predominantly southwell grocery store so in south east queensland his price to me extraordinary deluge i have a recent device. in many places runs are expected for at least the next 24 to 48 hours before few worse. extreme downpours battering australia's east have caused the worst flooding in half a century having already battled drought bushfires and the ongoing coronavirus

pandemic over the past year communities a feeling pushed to breaking point. and we can speak now to poppy brown she's the director of the australian red cross for new south wales and the australian capital territory poppy thank you for joining us as we heard dozens of communities have been isolated 38 areas have now been declared disaster zones put this into context for us how dire is the situation right now well yes it has been a very difficult few days here and. as you want to hire say we have had 18000 people evacuated we're supposed to have a 1000 people in evacuation centers there's a people had nowhere else to go. in some areas it's a once in a century flood event and a lot of these areas suffered in the bushfire as about a year or so ago interact as well so it's a case been a particularly hard couple of years for those communities and this is just one more

setback for them so we're trying to do all we can to support them in this situation but it is a very difficult time and you know what are the biggest challenges you're facing right now. so one of the things we're facing is the fact that the waters have risen so quickly so in some areas people have had to be worked in the middle of the night they've had to evacuate just the clothes that they are wearing so we've had people come to evacuation centers here just in which close with their children with their animals and they're in shock they've been traumatized you know all their possessions are in their homes so it's been very very difficult for those people and also that a lot of concerns about their livestock in the farms and things like that so yeah it's it is a very difficult time but our communities are very strong and resilient so we will bounce back but all the agencies and the government is trying the best we can to to

help our communities at the moment with tens of thousands of people already displaced and more rain forecast i mean what are you telling people and how they can protect themselves. here so what we're doing is we're very much ensuring that everybody has an emergency plan and if people are in those areas they look like they're in danger that what they should do is they should. go stay with friends and family should pack up their homes if they need to move to higher ground and make sure they follow all of the instructions that they did see services and then that they will be safe but we don't want to have his people in need to be rescued in the flood because so far we have had no loss of life so we want to make sure that it stays that way there's more rain does come are you worried that the situation could get worse. absolutely so it's a very volatile situation violent i know that. in the sydney area the big dam

that big water dams that supports the sydney area it's currently spilling over every single day enough water to fill sydney harbor that's the amount of water that's going into the rivers in that. area and then they come downstream and there's a risk of flooding so we're not over the worst yes. we said we have our fingers crossed that the rain eases and the flood situation eases because a lot of people like into the impacted poppy brown director of the australian red cross for new south wales and the australian capital territory thank you very much thank you. now pineapple growers in taiwan are rejoicing after a chinese ban on their fruits suddenly backfired earlier this month china stopped importing taiwanese pineapples citing past problems farmers on the island feared catastrophic losses as china buys around 90 percent of taiwan's pineapple exports instead the few despond a resistance movement aimed at challenging china's growing dominance across asia

with so-called freedom pineapples. after 2 years of hard work the harvest is finally here the pizza got what is perfect in terms of its local and pandarus premium quality pineapple export standard that if we took care of them and love them as our children now they are reciprocating and out of the woman. mr will have growing hard have always felt trendy yes in taiwan south bend county has found produces 105000000 out there for its part yeah almost all of them for exposure to mainland china but just 3 weeks ago raging announced it was his financial impost on the island for us over the past 10 years we have expanded our farmland 3 times to meet the rising demand from the chinese market i never thought they would impose a ban of the star you know the pineapples have no where to go. the bank came

right before harvest time many pineapples already ripened for packaging and. most wife managers the packaging on the fall she sat fall was attracted across race tension and she almost fainted like your heart off the back. to the. other industries foreman takes time this years quantity was ready last year and it's impossible to hold production because of the back. of a conflict at night with the seems to be no way out and if you hopeless. the chinese authorities announced the band in late february citing concerns but many saw the move as politically driven and temptation last year i want exporters of all $46000.00 tons of those what $53000000.00 u.s. dollars and more than 90 percent of them or so should china. hinge on counter is

hardest hit by the sudden ban as one 3rd of taiwan's karnow posts are produced here every year many local pharmacies grow that golden diamond for right here for the chinese market but now it is the forbidden fruit in china. china doesn't want but other markets do container trucks now come to the fall foliage times a week each time carrying more than $9000.00 fresh pineapples to hong kong through trade out of chance that injuries from hong kong wholesalers come in right after china announced a bag. there was. never stop praying since that day i didn't expect such enthusiasm i'm shocked i hope it gives farmers more confidence. consumers across the asia pacific region are stepping up taiwanese pineapples in an act of solidarity orders have been pouring in from japan korea singapore and australia with mr and mrs forsyth

a man from the new markets that last from the chinese market with crisis comes opportunity. because. we used to rely so heavily on the chinese market but we shouldn't put it in a basket it's time to step out of a comfort zone and try something new i'm sure we can gain more by doing so. so that both of them. in fear of china spend their will say they might have to reduce the size of their production for the coming yes but they won't give up growing the fruit. woman police pineapples are all babies we have strong bones and it's all miss. and to take care of them. we have confidence in our produce simply have to pass to quality i'm sure to win the hearts of non chinese consumers we look forward to the next chapter in your how the. temper but it's like a soccer now

a big day for 2 teams hoping to escape relegation both have time berlin and minds posted upsets have pulled off the biggest surprise of victory over leverkusen. at the berlin coach paul dyer day knew he had to win lose this one and it would slowly become mission impossible for his team to survive in the big league so i had to push forward like shoulder before totally overwhelming leverkusen right from the start and that paid off they scored in the 4th minute with a rocket of a goal courtesy of de or vice yours i point with an excellent set up by midfield dynamo matteo gone dizzy and dirty look at one nil for hair. the berliners kept pouring it on and in the 26 minute one back what looked like a last ball to set up much criticised brazilian striker much. and he smelled goal. too neal for hair to and coutinho was back on the scoreboard after more than a 1000 minutes of play with out

a goal. and it wasn't over yet just 7 minutes later colombian john cordova made it 3 no. and that's how it ended with no goals in the 2nd half. really for hair but they also know they have a long road ahead and labor cousens have some work to do also. in sunday's late game 5 books saw the chances of a qualifying for next season 0 take a big step forward they defeated outspread at home after a scoreless 1st half goodness mazie run set up the 1st goal by will launch ally went on to win 2 nil they are now 8th in the standings. and let's take a look at the standings now after a match day $26.00 with 8 games left for each club myron have held their 4 point lead at the top over life's a leverkusen is 6 having won only 3 of 13 games since the start of the year in the 2nd half is there at the bottom how to mind both move the point clear of the

relegation zone. right thank you for watching good of you coming up next as our show global 3000 it's looking at the question can science put an end to blood diamonds thank you for that.

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a future if a diamonds can last make gems bring an end to the mystery of mining. but 1st another precious commodity more time in the himalayas hijra palace stations are on the rise and that's taking their toll on nature. like elsewhere temperatures are rising in the himalayas iglesias of northern india a melting with devastating consequences in february this year a mudslide interac and buried almost 200 people dozens of them lost their lives climate activists say hydropower stations are to blame that construction involves large scale blasting and tree felling leading to land erosion now local residents a fighting back. pre-term singh is angry with the government and its promise of environmentally friendly energy he lives on the same river a small tributary in emotional predation state within 20 years the state built over

800 hydroelectric power stations 2 of them on the same age. to begin with we thought this project would greatly benefit and develop the area but when the work was underway it didn't turn out the way they play and. there's no water in the entire area. our roads our environment our homes our land everything has been destroyed we've been left with nothing. yet in. big gulp an immediate. change valley residents say they were promised compensation and jobs instead they lost their entire livelihood which were traditionally based on agriculture. now with the 2 hydroelectric plants on the same river there's nowhere near enough water for the farmer's fields. and 2 more power plants are under construction there. as an environmentally friendly power source

hydroelectric plants have become an important generator of electricity around the world in 3rd place behind coal and gas. and that also makes them a lucrative source of income. and he macho predation the state government rakes in over 9000000000 rupees that's 100000000 euros in electricity revenues annually. environmental activists now regard the hydro power boom with skepticism. saying research is the effect it's had on biodiversity and people's lives in the region. yet these mega projects have a negative impact on the environment around them when the land has been expropriated it's then submerged in water that means sources of livelihood like agriculture are completely destroyed. there's large scale deforestation construction and influx of people and that all leads to further environmental

imbalances but as part of making the body eat something. on top of that the region is prone to earthquakes dam breaches avalanches and landslides would be catastrophic for the people living here there was a landslide recently in the neighboring state of iraq and. the river teatime lies only 40 kilometers away from the same valley. another small tributary but it flows through untouched nature. it's one of the few in the region with no hydro electric plant. that's things to run jeev bharti in 2000 to a number of hydroelectric power stations along the river were given planning permission. marty teamed up with other villagers and went to court. everybody was. on the road all the oil you could get. and all the bureaucracy all

right wish everybody. did and most you except to contribute to thought you know ben you preach to the book couldn't even buy you any if world or private investors would have taken the. electricity he wouldn't actually agree with it all just everything there would indicate. the villagers won their case though it took 3 years. their homeland and livelihoods have been preserved they still live off agriculture and fishing and in recent years they've also established a sustainable tourist industry in their valley inviting travelers to their own homes. but would be a small home state for really didn't there's not a lot of you know division that took place and we all this dark people that

buddhism is has to be treated as an ordinary day of income generation x. wouldn't you know and thankfully they're also good or not. you know approved us right. now 20000 people are visiting the teton valley annually the residents are in much more with tourism than the hydro plant operators promised them in compensation. anglers hikers birdwatchers and study groups mostly from india come to see the myriad species in the environment the villagers defended so well. comes makes a common in mining regions to cobalts platinum and gold and known his wrath and industry is dependent on them just one cell phone can contain 60 different elements all of which have to be extracted from the ground. such mining destroys financed areas of land and natural habitats and countries rich and such precious metals

often suffer more than they gain but that could be a light at the end of the tunnel at least when it comes to diamonds. and. a token of love. anybody ever had a marketing miracle. ministers for. a diamond is forever docked our. inspiration for countless songs. and movies. but they also cause a brutal civil wars. and environmental destruction. beautiful pure precious diamonds are strangers to the earth's surface their true home is in

the hellish foundry of the earth's mantle. more than 150 kilometers deep with temperatures over 800 degrees celsius under conditions impossible to replicate except that's not quite true. we connect our. scientists can grow diamonds in the land. are seen as it's my dime and they are getting so much better and faster. that soon enough we might no longer need to mind the. damage. is actually a property to this community. this is far i moved to an activist to a spent his life exposing crimes in zimbabwe's diamond business this made him into a target for corrupt afarid whose day you actually wanted me executed. the state security did my home i managed to sneak through the window. his

reports horrified western consumers we've got a lot of artists on minors going in there that was all that so in the kitchen they don't list them the custom in the end is sit dogs in their. also beach people also shoot to kill 'd. thanks to his work and that of n.g.o.s like human rights watch and global witness human rights are better protected today but environmental destruction persists diamond mines can cause deforestation respiratory illnesses and polluted water in regions where that's already a scarce resource people used to to fish from that river we cannot do it anymore because of the syndicates coming from the customer because are dying the fish are

dying so it's a disaster and normally hold them accountable for their crimes but economics could succeed where politics failed the profitability of these mines depends on perceived rarity and that's starting to crumble. diamonds were never precious shan's family's been in the diamond business for 3 generations but his company is breaking industry taboos there are very few of diamonds was a. a myth created by de barrows. a company that for a long time controlled the production of most of the world. and which has its one time chairman said to increase their value by making them artificially scarce. since the 1960 s. it's been possible to make tiny grains for industrial applications. for 5 years ago we started to see advancements in technology that allowed for

production of general quality diamonds and high enough quality to be used and. here's how it works we take a slice of the altar created and it's arranged in a proprietary chamber you arrange those seeds almost like a waffle and you close the chamber you raise the temperature inside. it combination of propriety gases when the temperature is in the mid 132-1500 degree centigrade between splits the carbon that separated starts bonding this bond. starts connecting with this sea eat that sitting at the bottom of the chamber and diamond grossly have by layer this technology is energy intensive but it's still more sustainable and profitable than traditional mines just a few months ago one of the world's biggest diamond mines closed forever because it

was no longer profitable to keep digging the conductivity makes diamonds wonder material for engineers it could also make screens more resistant solar panels more efficient lasers more powerful hard drives smaller and much much better electronic devices these higher tech out. asians represent a very very small part of the industry at this point. 3 so it could be darker it's a worry but i think we're going to see a dime and. a lot more of the products that we use on every day basis. and let's not forget we're no longer needing to mind. with. grown diamonds will provide a more sustainable alternative for zimbabwe. the number one there is less human rights abuses. there's the issue of pollution it will be significantly reduced. and then thirdly my view

is that governments and even the military. therefore i completely support. low pay and dangerous working conditions a common in the ship breaking in the streets to $600.00 such a container ships were demolished last year alone the oil and chemicals released in the process pose a huge risk to those people and the planet and frightens a grave polluters over their roughly 30 year life spans to one vessel can use up to 300 tons of heavy fuel oil a day the global shipping industry produces 900 $40000000.00 tons of c o 2 emissions every year new regulations from 2020 a need to reduce this but can the sec to do without heavy fuels and steel all

together one shipyards in costa rica has found a way. when it truly is held in coaster there needs to be a good reason. and this is it a traditional tall ship named seba for trance. put in cargo it's being built but the would have $400.00 trees on it's carbon neutral we claim to be more than $4000.00 trees so far and we will be creating over $12000.00 before saving hit that water. the main office for the day shipyard is in a treehouse. all in keeping with the overall concept of sustainability this is where the ambitious project is managed. well we want to do is using save our flagship set for the for profit company and prove that we can make clean shipping fire. international shipping produces a significant share of global emissions. seba is designed to change that course by

showing that things can work differently inspired by the project dozens of people have got on board in their best and i'm. i'm a boat building instructor from holland and from omaha nebraska in the united states i'm a local i'm for boeing i'm from portugal my name's russell i'm from the west coast of canada and i'm support crew so i do whatever needs to be done every helping hand is needed if the initiators including links from canada want to raise awareness and provide an alternative form of shipping their freighter has to be 100 percent emissions free and that's not all. it's for using sustainable local materials right that are sourced within the region so we also have a clean shipping. business that we're building but we're also also promoting sustainable building as well cargo ship building which is something when you

compare it to steel is a lot more environmentally friendly. the ship which is 45 meters long.